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Using Meta Tags


Description, Keywords and Authors

  <META NAME="Description" Content="Your web page description">

  <META NAME="Keywords" Content="Your web page keywords">

  <META NAME="Authors" Content="Celticweb">

Meta Tags For Robots

To index or not to index:

  <META NAME="Robots" Content="noindex, nofollow">

Or the reverse:

  <META NAME="Robots" Content="index, follow">

You should also have a "robots.txt" to help make sure these tags are obeyed.

Client-pull tags

To make a page automatically refresh or jump to another page you use a "client-pull" meta tag. You would make the page refresh itself after a specified period if it was being periodically updated, like stock quotes or sports results. In this tag you specify the number of seconds for the refresh and also the destination:

You can make a page refresh itself as follows:

  <META httpequiv="Refresh" Content="60">

or you can force the client to pull another page or to redirect to a different page after a certain amount of time - you have to specify its URL or address:

  <META httpequiv="Refresh" Content="60" URL="http://www.celticweb.com/page2.html">

In this case we're redirected to the http://www.celticweb.com/page2.html after 60 seconds. This could conceivably be used for a web slide show!


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